Potato-peeler



H. LEE.

FOTATO PEELER.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 6, I9I9.

Patented July 15; 1919.

A TTORIVEVS wien,

HANS LEE, or IOWA CITY, IOWA.

POTATO-PEELER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 15, 1919.

Application filed March 6, 1919. Serial No. 281,049.

T0 all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, HANS LEE, a subject of the King of Norway, and a resident of Iowa City, in the county of Johnson and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Potato-Peelers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is an improvement in potato peelers, and has for its object to provide a device of the character specified which may be secured to the hand of the user, and by means of which a potato may be easily peeled or scraped, and the eyes gouged out, without changing the position of the lmife on the hand.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improved peeler in use;

Fig. 2 is a front view of the peeler detached;

Fig. 3 is an edge view showing the scraping blade;

Fig. 4 is a transverse vertical section.

In the present embodiment of the invention, the improved peeler is formed from a sheet of suitable material shaped to form a base or body 1 having at one end a peeling blade 2 and at the other a scraping blade 3. The blade 2 extends beyond one side of the base as shown, having its sharpended edge 4 toward the base, and at the otherside edge of the base and in line with the peeling blade there is a ring 4 for engagement by the little finger of the user.

Tongues 5 are provided at the side edge of the base, and these tongues are bent to lie substantially parallel with the base in spaced relation on the rear face thereof, and the two tongues, together with the base, form a clasp for receiving the middle and ring fingers of the user. The index finger, as shown in Fig. l, lies at that side of the base adjacent to the peeling blade, and the strap 6 of flexible material, as, for instance, leather or the like, is connected to the base at its junction with the blade, the ends of the strap being connected to buttons or lugs 7 formed from the material of the sheet, the ends of the strap having slots for receiving the buttons. This strap passes around the ring 4 as shown, and is of a length to engage outside the index finger at the opposite 'side of the base, that is, at the cutting edge of the blade 2.

The scraping blade is formed by cutting a slot 8 in the sheet, that edge of the slot remote from the base 1 being beveled to .form the scraping edge, and the other edge 1s also beveled to form a cutting edge, as shown in Fig. 4. The sheet is curved on an axis parallel with the blade as shown in Fig. 4 to form a guard 9 between the scraping blade and the potato being operated upon, and it will be noticed that this blade is of considerable length, the portion of the sheet from which the blade is formed being gf greater length than the width of the ase.

The entire tool is formed from a single sheet of material, and the blades 2 and 3 may be suitably tempered. In use, to scrape or peel the potato or to gouge the eyes, the device is held as shown in Fig. 1. To scrape the potato, the potato is held with the left hand and the scraping blade 3 is moved over the surface of the body as shown in Fig. 1 to remove the skin. In order to peel or gouge eyes, the position will be obvious, it being only necessary to remove the scraping blade out of contact with the potato and bring the cutting blade into contact therewith- I claim:

A potato peeler comprising a support having at one end a laterally extending cutting blade arranged with its cutting edge adjacent to the support and having at the other end of the said blade a ring for engagement b v the little finger, the support having a sheath for engagement by the middle and ringngers, the index finger being adapted to lie at the opposite edge of the sheath from the ring, said support having a scraping blade at the opposite end from the cutting blade and extending laterally in both directions from the supv port.

HANS LEE.

Witnesses WM. G. VANDEsTEnG, J. P. JOHNSTON.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. 0. 

